{"id":669,"date":"2023-06-07T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/?p=669"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:21:29","slug":"new-talks-and-a-guided-walk-for-2023-by-the-nether-edge-history-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"New talks and a guided walk for 2023 by the Nether Edge History Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to announce two new talks and a new guided walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the <strong>12<\/strong><sup><strong>th<\/strong><\/sup><strong> July, at 7.30<\/strong> in the Kenwood Hotel, Anne, The Bustle Lady will be talking about \u2018The Wonders of Gas\u2019, in which she will include our sewer gas powered lamp. Anne is a historian specialising in the mid to late Victorian era, covering a wide range of topics: social, economic, political, domestic, agricultural and technological of the period 1875 to 1888. As well as bringing the history of this time to life, she aims to draw parallels with our modern lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the <strong>15<\/strong><sup><strong>th<\/strong><\/sup><strong> September<\/strong> at 11.00am as part of Heritage Week will be a guided walk on Nether Edge\u2019s \u2018Creative Women\u2019. These will include Joyce Himsworth silversmith, Annie Binden Carter artist, and the Drabble sisters who were prolific writers. For walk bookings please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/visiting\/event\/nether-edge-history-group-walk-creative-women-of-nether-edge\"><u>https:\/\/www.heritageopendays.org.uk\/visiting\/event\/nether-edge-history-group-walk-creative-women-of-nether-edge<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the <strong>20<\/strong><sup><strong>th<\/strong><\/sup><strong> September<\/strong> at 7.30 again at the Kenwood Hotel will be a talk by Jenny Rudd on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Lady Mary was married to the British Ambassador to Constantinople. There she observed the ladies of the harem \u2018inoculating\u2019 their children against smallpox with a small amount of smallpox matter. Mary, a very remarkable woman, brought this practice to England in 1720 \u2013 years before Edward Jenner came up with the safer idea of using cowpox matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of Heritage week the walk is free and the talks are \u00a35 for entry. Doors open to the public at 7.00pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NEH-talks-and-walks-23.docx.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NEH-talks-and-walks-23.docx.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/NEH-talks-and-walks-23.docx-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption><br>Anne the Bustle Lady<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce two new talks and a new guided walk. On the 12th July, at 7.30 in the Kenwood Hotel, Anne, The Bustle Lady will be talking about \u2018The Wonders of Gas\u2019, in which she will include our sewer gas powered lamp. Anne is a historian specialising in the mid to late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netheredgehistory.org.uk\/nehg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}